Re: Autoconf 2.49d test: Command not found

From:

Lars J. Aas

Subject:

Re: Autoconf 2.49d test: Command not found

Date:

Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:07:24 +0100

User-agent:

Mutt/1.2.5i

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:20:02PM +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
: On further investigation, it seems to be coming from here:-
:
: $(srcdir)/version.texi: stamp-vti
: @:
:
: My Make struggles to understand '@:'.
:
: What is it supposed to mean?
@ tags the make rule so that make doesn't display it before executing it,
and : is the command. It's basically a "nop" in this context. I don't
get why it's there - shouldn't be necessary from what I know about portable
makefiles.
Lars J
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